Talk:Free imperial city
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[edit] Naming
Should it not be "Free Imperial City"? --128.176.76.160 16:38, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Capitalization
- There is no reason to capitalize the "I" in the word "imperial" "C" in the word "city" in this article. It is not a name of a particular city (like Mexico City) and the adjective "imperial" is not and integral part of a name for something (like Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino), but both are merely constituents of a term for a type of city. --B. Jankuloski (talk) 00:05, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Requested move
- The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the proposal was move. JPG-GR (talk) 18:50, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
- Move According to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization), the title of this article should not be capitalized. --Neo-Jay (talk) 02:28, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
- It's a proper name (and Imperial is a proper adjective within it, since it relates specifically to the Holy Roman Empire). Oppose. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 02:37, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
- If it is a proper name, why is it lowercased in many, if not most, of the search results in Google Book Search and Google Scholar? Even in this Wikipedia article itself, it is also lowercased in the text. --Neo-Jay (talk) 03:39, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
- Wikipedia is not a reliable source. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 15:30, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
- I did not just mention Wikipeida. I also mentioned Google Book Search and Google Scholar. Please don't ignore them. Thanks. --Neo-Jay (talk) 17:17, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
- Wikipedia is not a reliable source. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 15:30, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
- If it is a proper name, why is it lowercased in many, if not most, of the search results in Google Book Search and Google Scholar? Even in this Wikipedia article itself, it is also lowercased in the text. --Neo-Jay (talk) 03:39, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
- Support per the naming conventions, common nouns shouldn't be capitalized, and this is not referring to one free imperial city, but the concept in general. Parsecboy (talk) 14:14, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
